Suleyman Soylu

Suleyman Soylu (21 November 1969-) was Minister of Labor for Turkey from 24 November 2015, succeeding Ahmet Erdem.

Biography
Suleyman Soylu was born on 21 November 1969 in Istanbul, Turkey, and he graduated from the Istanbul University Faculty of Management, starting his business in the stock exchange. He also created an insurance company, and Soylu entered politics with the conservative Democratic Party of Turkey. On 29 April 1999, Soylu became the party's Istanbul chairman, and from 6 January 2008 to 16 May 2009 he served as the party president before his defection to the Justice and Development Party (AKP). On 30 September 2012, Soylu became the deputy AKP chairman under Recep Tayyip Erdogan's dictatorship, and in 2015 he became a National Assembly member as well as Minister of Labor and Social Security. On 16 July 2016, he blamed the United States for the 2016 Turkish coup attempt, which nearly overthrew Erdogan's government.